Brad Kessler

About Brad Kessler

“Birds in Fall” won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2007. The novel also earned him a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Whiting Writer’s Award. He went to Wesleyan University where he studied with Annie Dillard, a writer. During his early career, he worked as an editor and magazine journalist at Interview. He also wrote scripts for Rabbit Ears Production which were recorded by Ben Kingsley, Danny Glover, Denzel Washington, Susan Sarandon, and John Cleese. His third novel, “North”, took him ten years to write. He stayed for stretches staying at monasteries and working pretty closely with the Somali community in Burlington, Vermont, as well as the Vermont Office of the United States Committee on Refugees and Immig